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Quotes About Sensation

Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.
~ Robert Dessaix
I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.
~ Zach Condon
de más en más me interesaba el mundo oscuro de la sensación, negra noche donde fulguran y ruedan soles enceguecedores...
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
The difference between a friendship and a romance is illustrated in the image of a long-stemmed rose.  The stem is the friendship, the blossom is the romance.  Because the ego is sensation-oriented, our focus automatically goes to the blossom, but all the nourishment which the blossom needs in order to live reaches it through the stem.  The stem might look boring in comparison, but if you take the blossom off the stem, it will not last for long.
~ Marianne Williamson
Never shall I forget the exquisite sensation I experienced! I can only describe it as the poor little Doll's Dressmaker in "Our Mutual Friend" described her angel visitants, her "blessed children," who used to come and "take her up and make her light.
~ Marie Corelli
Then we dared Pogo to cut his wrist with a knife, which he did several times.
~ Marilyn Manson
There is a reality in blessing, which I take baptism to be, primarily. It doesn't enhance sacredness, but it acknowledges it, and there is a power in that. I have felt it pass through me, so to speak. The sensation is of really knowing a creature, I mean really feeling its mysterious life and your own mysterious life at the same time.
~ Marilynne Robinson
delicious icy chilliness that controlled his brain
~ Mario Puzo
Not that she could have chosen to have the wind move through her hair the way it did, or commanded the sunlight to brighten her eyes. What she did had nothing to do with hair or eyes but with the way she moved that made the sky seem to long for her.
~ Mark Danielewski
It was like pressing your thumbnail against a radiator when it's really hot and the pain starts and it makes you want to cry and the pain keeps hurting even when you take your thumb away from the radiator.
~ Mark Haddon
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet
~ Annie Dillard
I experienced pleasure like a future pain.
~ Annie Ernaux
I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.
~ Anthony Burgess
And then I realized I was high. I loved the sensation. It felt like medicine to soothe the soul and awaken the senses. There was nothing awkward or scary-I didn't feel like I had lost control-in fact, I felt like I was in control.
~ Anthony Kiedis
For a brief second, for an inexpressibly curtailed efflux of time, so short that its duration could be appreciated only in recollection, being immediately engulfed at the moment of birth, I was conscious of a sensation I had never before encountered: an awareness that Stringham was perhaps a trifle embarrassed.
~ Anthony Powell
Vavasor, as he walked up the House to the Clerk's table and took the oath and then walked down again, felt himself to be almost taken aback by the little notice which was accorded to him. It was not that he had expected to create a sensation, or that he had for a moment thought on the subject, but the thing which he was doing was so great to him, that the total indifference of those around him was a surprise to him.
~ Anthony Trollope
And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.
~ Aristotle
there is no gain in being persuaded not to be hot or in pain or hungry or the like, since we shall experience these feelings none the less.
~ Aristotle
Van zichzelf mag hij er niet zijn, dat hij er toch is komt omdat hij het zijn ouders niet aan kan doen er niet te zijn. Geen liefde kan aan de sensatie er van jezelf niet te mogen zijn een eind maken, daarom moet je er ook niemand mee lastig vallen.
~ Arnon Grunberg
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain," said Lord Byron
~ Shirley Jackson
She brought herself away from the disagreeably clinging thought by her usual method - imagining the sweet sharp sensation of being burned alive.
~ Shirley Jackson
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain," said Lord Byron, enunciating a basic Romantic idea and, perhaps, hoping that goblins, ghosts, and demons provided some necessary release
~ Shirley Jackson
The normal sequence is that energy is prompted at the perceptual system, passes into consciousness, and thence to the motor system, where it is discharged by action. (I feel an unpleasant sensation, realize that I have been bitten by a mosquito, raise my hand, and swat the insect.)
~ Sigmund Freud
Les plus brûlantes images sont froides au prix d'une sensation.
~ Simone de Beauvoir